#science education
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Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum blame scientists for public scientific illiteracy. The case study serving as exhibit one? Pluto's demotion from planethood.
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Texas' new potential chair of the Board of Education will make you long for the good old days of anti-evolution dentist Don McLeroy.
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What do we mean by breaking the laws of physics? And what happens if we do?
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All too often people confuse a debate out of pity or common courtesy for equal standing. And all too often, cranks are happy to take advantage of that perception.
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How people use the word "theory" when it comes to science shows how badly we teach them about the scientific method.
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Weird Things talks to the Texas Freedom Network about keeping science in science class despite the state's best efforts to gut it.
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Texas finally had enough of Don McLeroy's leadership of the school board. But he's still on the board and still a threat to reality-based education.
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Yet more shenanigans from the Texas School Board of Education, this time about the age of the universe and the basics of cosmology.
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GOP congressman Mike Pence managed to perform a rare feat: an interview about science and environment in which every statement was completely wrong.
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BioLogos is determined to bridge the divides between science and religion by... well, avoiding any topic of substance.
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The Texan Institute For Creation Research is still dead set on issuing an M.S. in creationism, and they have 80 pages of (nonsensical) reasons why.
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Once again, the concept of descent proves just too difficult for creationists to understand, or at least argue about in good faith.
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Turkey may be moving forward politically and economically, but it's heading backwards on science education.
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If you want to understand how science works, you have to understand the connection between a scientific theory and facts.
# politics
Sometimes the comments are more telling than the reporting on an important issue in science education.
